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The Effect of Semantic Features of Native Lexical items on
Persian Speaking Learners of English in Translation

Mohammad Reza Pahlavan Nezhad, Ph.D. in Linguistics
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Farzaneh Hassanzadeh Tavakoli, Ph.D. Student in Linguistics
International Campus of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

This article deals with the effect of semantic features of native lexical items on Persian speaking learners of English in translation and has been arranged in four parts.

In the first part the semantics and different kinds of errors including interlingual errors has been introduced briefly.

In the second part, some experiments carried out in high school and university to observe the effect of semantics features of native lexical items on Persian speaking learners of English has been presented.

In the third part the results of these experiments has been analyzed and in last part the reasons why most of Persian speaking learners of English make lexico-semantics errors and some solutions are mentioned.

Key Words: Semantic features? native lexical items? Persian speaking learners, interlingual errors, translation

Introduction

Semantics is the study of the meaning of words and sentences. (Saeed, 203: 22). It tries to understand why meaning is as an element of language and how it is constructed by language as well as interpreted, obscured and negotiated by speakers and listeners of language. (Falk, 1978:24).

Meaning can be analyzed in terms of semantic features. A semantic feature is a notational method which can be used to express the existence or non-existence of pre-established semantic properties by using plus and minus signs. (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavan Nezhad, Ph.D. in Linguistics
Associate Professor
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Iran
Rezapahlavan5@yahoo.com

Farzaneh Hassanzadeh Tavakoli, Ph.D. Student in Linguistics
International Campus of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Iran
Farzaneh_hassanzadeh_tavakoli@yahoo.com
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